Myth Busting in Renewable Energy
I met a guy earlier today who told me that wind and solar are controversial, and that some people say that the mining and manufacturing of wind turbines requires more fossil fuels than the turbines themselves produce.
I told him that I’m aware of such people; they’re called “professional liars.”
I explained the concept of EROI, energy return on investment, and surprised him by saying that the EROI of wind is somewhere between 18 and 30, meaning that each wind turbine you see as you drive along the freeway will generate at least 18 times as much energy as was required in its mining, fabrication, installation, maintenance, and decommissioning–all the way up to 30 times that amount.
The generation of disinformation of renewables has become a cottage industry. People are paid to make up and publish complete bullshit, so as to discredit the burgeoning clean energy industry, and keep Big Oil in place.
As bad as things are in the United States, they could always get worse.
As shown at left, unless your theistic views are harming others, atheists will simply leave you alone.
Good to see John Eastman disbarred in California; it’s a small measure of justice.
I don’t know how many of our readers have seen this, but there is an array of new products that use pressurized steam to clean kitchens and bathrooms.
The meme here depicts where the United States has gone recently. Our president starts an illegal and unnecessary war.
In case it’s not already clear, Trump supporters buy virtually zero of Neil Young’s music, if only because it’s aggressively anti-racist, e.g. “Southern Man,” and “Alabama.”
Here’s another reminder of how far to the extreme low brow right the American conservative movement has swung.
My advice to David:
Some may find the claim at left compelling.
